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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Free country where a 10 year old kid can’t even walk alone. Meanwhile in Germany parents of 6 year olds are heavily encouraged by school to let kids walk to school alone and stop being such a cry babies because nothing is gonna happen and they should learn to be independent.

Also why did they arrest her? In my country when the state thinks you committed a smaller crime and there’s no reason to believe you’re gonna fly they just send you a letter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Land of the free, home of the brave or something. Doesn't sound very free or brave to me though. More like government mandated helicopter parenting.

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